Re: What Documentaries Influenced You Most and Why?

KC huh? Yeah.. I did the same thing to my daughter, she is still mad at me for not giving her a real name.

I agree with you, though I can't say anything MM has done is in my top 5 list, they are in the top 10. I make no apologies what so ever. It seem with both those on the right or left in vogue to bash him, the left just apologizes (this is just what they tend to do as they try to stay "open minded"). I don't, I unabashedly say that he is one of my hero's.

Along with Bush & Cheney, he is one of the people instrumental in turning me from a conservative (I voted republican from RR to Jr's 1st term), to a screaming unapologetic socialist that I am today. Though he makes documentaries, I would call him as much a liberal commentator as a documentary maker.

I doubt there are many filmmakers who don't tailor their films to some extent to reflect their views (though often views may change while making a film), and that is mainly what everyone bashes him for. As a liberal commentator he is a favorite football of the right, with the left allowing it. I wonder if Rush, Hannity, or O'Reilly made a doc, if the conservatives would be there apologizing for molding a message.
I think that answer is pretty self evident.